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Pension Plan Puppets · Apr 8, 2016

William Nylander off to a good start in his NHL career

Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY SportsWe're just 21 games into William Nylander's NHL career, and he already has four multi-point games: two of which are three-pointers.

Nylander is the first Maple Leafs rookie to score at least three points in a game twice in one season since 2008-09, when Mikhail Grabovski did it three times and Nikolay Kulemin did so twice.

The nice news? Nylander will top out at 22 games this season, so he'll still be considered a rookie going into next year. He'll have plenty of time to have more three-point games (and maybe be a Calder contender? Let's go ahead and dream, that's what the off-season is for).

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